#social wasp

[oca-rinn-a]

slorp... slirp...

"now it's time for cake!"

#vespula squamosa #southern yellowjacket #wasp #buglblr #v squamosa #Texas #beautiful bug! #predator #social wasp #yellowjacket #true yellowjacket #don't bring paperwasps into this #polistes exclamans are docile and vibing

[roobiedo]

Made this for the Solarpunk Aesthetic Week server in a sudden creative fever, so I guess I'll post it here too hh

A relative of mine knows someone who teaches kids, so I'm gonna suggest this as an art project for them! The idea is that students could each make/decorate their own shelf, then put them together to form a hive, which could function as mini lockers in their classrooms. Then, by the end of the school year or something, they could either take their own little shelf home (or exchange them with their peers?), or recycle them into materials for the next class! Hopefully it'll teach them about pollinators too 🐝

Idk how doable this project is really, and its scary to imagine one of my silly designs could actually become something tangible irl. But even so, I'm still excited to try 🥰 (And if anyone else attempts this too, please let me know!!!)

#art #artists on tumblr #solarpunk #earth day #ani if u see this thank u for the inspiration <3 #and uhhh idk if art can be considered action but....... #solarpunk action week #SPAW #roobiedoodle #not many people responded in the server so idk if its any good really ;;;; just leaving it here to archive ig #so far ive only shared solarpunky ideas within my tiny social circle so. its scary to think about reaching out to strangers with all this #ik like community is a big part of the movement but liiiike. OOOGH. WAAAGH IDK IDK WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES #ok. random extra idea: i think the nest design would also look vv cool as a ceiling lamp 💡 thats how it hangs irl anyway! #bugs #wasp #insects #<-SORRY I FORGOT TO TAG WARNINGS

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Bees might be dancers, but wasps are drummers! Studies have shown that some species of social wasp will beat their abdomen, or gaster, against the side of the nest in a rhythmic fashion to alert others of nearby food.

(Image: A northern paper wasp (Polistes fuscatus) by Wayne Beirbaum)

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#Hymenoptera #Vespidae #paper wasps #social wasps #wasps #insects #arthropods #uncharismatic facts

[kathryndaily]

KATHRYN NEWTON and PAUL RUDD via Kathryn's instagram

#kathryn newton #paul rudd #knewtonedit #kathrynnewtonedit #paulruddedit #pruddedit #marvel cast #mcu cast #ant man #ant man and the wasp: quantumania #flawlesscelebs #mcuedit #marveledit #scott lang #usersource #cassie lang #edit #social media #ours

[lightningthunderstorm]

“ the Knight - the Pixie - the Giant”

#my art #digital drawing #digital art #marvel comics #marvel #the avengers #avengers earth's mightiest heroes #iron man #tony stark #the wasp #janet van dyne #ant man #hank pym #part 1 #artist on tumblr #small artist #the show is goat #two with high iq and one with lower iq #two with social skill and one with no social skill #two red and one yellow

[onenicebugperday]

There are social spiders???? I knew about spiders having symbiotic relationships with other creatures but thought they were pretty antagonistic to each other exclusively

There aren't many! But yes, there are a few that do live in communities. Here are some African social spiders working together to take down a very large wasp:

RIP to the wasp :( Photo by wynand_uys

#tyrannicalterror #the more you know #bugs #arachnids #spider #african social spider #congregation #bug death #predation #wasp

[mantisgodsart]

so very small Worm (Wildbow), Bug Fables Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Skitter | Weaver | Taylor Hebert, Post-GM, Transmigration, Spiders, Bugs & Insects, Canon-Typical Violence

Taylor Hebert wakes up in the middle of a grassy field with an aching head, a massive blank in her memory, and approximately four more limbs than she remembers having. Approximately, of course, because one of her original four limbs appeared to be gone, and she wasn't sure how to qualify an entire abdomen suddenly spawning off of her backside. Something ingrained deeply into her skull told her she should be blaming someone, but she couldn't quite remember who.

Author's Note: Bugtober, Day 19 - Mimic. We think that Taylor would be a mimic spider if we swapped her over to BF. We have no major justification for this, but we are open to suggestions if anyone has a better idea, seeing as it's been nearly three years (we think) since we've read Worm and there are likely people on this website who are not operating on three years of character drift.

#our art #bug fables #worm #parahumans #taylor hebert #watercolor #bugtober #finished #what canon is the violence typical for? good question. #losing access to swarm tactics doesnt defang taylor but it Does mean she would have to put in more effort for gore #this is not a real fic and will not be a real fic at any point in the forseeable future btw #in order for us to write a fic we have to have read the source media within at least six months of writing #and we have been procrastinating on rereading worm #this is just a vague idea that came about from discussing what bugs the undersiders would be #generally we agreed she would be a social insect of some description but this is more Fun for the setting #she is a perfectly normal ant. who is normal. and standard. #we have previously drawn taylor approximately Never and we have not figured out mimic spider anatomy with their weirdass two segments #ehh. her disguise is perfectly passable. ants will not bat an eye at her because she smells right and ant eyesight sucks ass #for those wondering on other placements rachel is a weevil lisa is an orchid mantis brian is a ladybug and alec is a parasitoid wasp #we also decided that squealer would be a bombadier beetle. we feel no desire to clarify this decision. take it as you will #we will now fail to post anything even vaguely worm related for approximately five trillion more years

[indigobugs]

Bee -n really busy. I spend most of my art time nowadays working at the day job and when I'm off the clock I've kinda preferred to make wall hangings or paint miniatures. I also finally got married last weekend after a 1+ year engagement, so thats a lot off both me and my wife's minds.

#ink #inking #indigo moorhead #bugs #wasp #murder hornet #asian giant hornet #animal #hornet #insect #social insects #ilustration #drawing #traditional art #bee #bees

[fiapple]

for such a small fandom, the moral orel community really does have a huge fucking problem with woobification of the adult cast.

it's gross.

#this isn't about liking characters this is however about using that as an excuse to pretend they are not horrible people. #like literally the only decent adult in moralton is stephanie- others may have their moments but overall? just her. #& that's thematically fucking important! like the fact that the only good person in a town suffocated by it's own rigid adherence to WASP #social norms is a visually non-conforming lesbian? yeah that kinda fucking means something! that was a pointed writing choice! #also before anyone mentions officer papermouth hes a cop. moreover he's a cop in a town where several characters are canonically racist. #& its a town where people are known to mostly hold the same views on social issues due to the aforementioned strict adherence to WASP norms #do not “officer papermouth seems like a good guy.” me i will chuck your kneecaps into a river. #but enough with the uwu cutesy headcanons about characters who are canonically racist/homophobic/abusive/misogynistic! #enough with the blaming literally every character except your personal favourite for the climate of the town! #enough with blaming only one parent for the puppington family dynamic! #enough with acting like characters don't have faults because you happen to find a clay figurine unreasonably attractive! #you're missing the fucking point! #enough enough enough enough! learn how to actually analyze & interact with the media you consume please! #moral orel #also: #proshippers dni #you lot are the worst of the fucking bunch & your approach to media as a group is horrific. fuck off.

[mishkakagehishka]

Like look at how many people made even jokey criticisms of usamericans to the tune of "they don't even know geography" are deactivated or have received an outrageous amount of anon hate for it

#i just think it's sick for a people to be so avoidant of being told they're not perfect #and i could talk about how it's in part due to how social activism has become protestantism 2.0 to them #where being imperfect means you're the villain #and you can see it in all those ways little wasp kids privileged in every other way make charts on who's oppressed more #if you say they're oppressors in any way it's akin to calling them a sinner - irredeemable and untouchable #so God forbid you point out the way most of the world considers usamerica their oppressor #bc it's not about activism or making the world a better place it's about ''being better [than you]''

[crysdrawsthings]

It is late at night and I have a room temperature and very subjective take about BG3 that would piss a lot of people off and probably land me a fat package of anon hate, so I will exercise wisdom and move on.

Unless?

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #kinda #i guess #crysandthings #having a social media equivalent of a dark urge moment lol #also known as swinging the bat at the wasp nest

[gay-artificer]

As soon as i saw you mention animal expresions and how we might not notice a flaring of nostrils or ears bending back or how much the head is raised i thought of using body odors as signals (i dont know if this would be relevant to the type of animal slugcats are). Like how animals can smell stress and all those sorts of stuff that it could be possibly that slugcat also used that to some extend?

The biggest conflict with scent based tells is that its kinda limited to a few communicating a few big things- and the fact that its rain world so its very wet and any scent based communication would probably be most effective peer-to-peer rather than long term due to things getting washed away. In the real world chemical communication is largely used by large animals in order to communicate things when youre not there, such as territory lines or what your current status is in terms of mate readiness so that things wandering your area don't have to encounter you directly to know things. I actually brought it up since the primary way a lot of slug-slugs communicate (although its basic things like sexual status) is actually via their slime trails containing cues that would be, effectively, unreadable to anything but other slugs. I also brought it up since you could interpret the 'ears' of slugcats as like rhinophores, a chemosensory organ in sea slugs. But you could absolutely have slugcats giving 'scared' smells off to their peers or communicating general emotional states easily. Personally I like to think slugcats do leave very strong chemical markers around their locations as they travel, so that nomadic traveling individuals can track each down and check up on each other! With their 'ears' actually being a very powerful sensory organ that lets them do this effectively despite the rain washing.

#If you wanna look more into this topic though #I recommend social insects use of pheromones! #They still have body cues but are less flexible and vocal #so chemical communication is big part of their life #Pheromones are actually why animals like wasps and bees know to 'attack' you when you get close. #and i dont think it would be too fair off to try and make it so that things like slugpups 'alert' via smell when theyre in trouble if they #dont outright make distressed sounds! #ask #chirping-astronaut

[flame-shadow]

spider wasp sketch page

#wasps #bug art #anthro #flameshadowart #cyra #...sort of. technically these are just sketches to get a better feel for things before the final stylization to make a cyra design but im #tagging it as her anyway #honestly the biggest thing i haven't figured out to my satisfaction is how to fold the wings cuz -technically- the wings should #fold over each other and lie flat on the back and over the abdomen #but with the upright body either the wings have to lay to the side like a social wasp or i have to tilt the abdomen down a lot more #but that would obstruct bipedal locomotion so uhhh yeah still working on it

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Wonder Common Wasps

The common wasp, Vespula vulgaris is a species of wasp that is native throughout Europe and Asia, and has been introduced in New Zealand, Australia, and South America. These wasps thrive in a variety of environments, from deciduous forests to meadows to urban parks and gardens; the primary requirements are an abundant source of food and at least several months where the temperature is above 2 °C (36 °F) which allows them to forage. Nests can be found in tree hollows, crevices, wall cavities, or any other enclosed space.

Vespula vulgaris has a highly varied diet. As larvae, they are fed pre-chewed caterpillars, flies, spiders, and bees. Adults consume more sugary foods like nectar, fruits, and honey. They find these foods through their extremely sensitive sense of smell; the common wasp is capable of detecting minute particles of food via their antennae, and once a source of food is found the individual will return to the hive to recruit others by drumming their abdomen against the side of the nest.

Like other hymenoptrids, the common wasp is a eusocial species; each nests consists of workers under the direction of a single queen. When a queen first begins her colony, she does most of the work building the nest from chewed wood fibre and laying eggs that produce sterile female workers. As the colony grows, reaching up to 5,000 individuals, the queen begins to produce both female and male workers, each of which performs a specific task for the hive; foraging, caring for the eggs and larvae, feeding the queen, or repairing the nest. These workers are directed by pheromones released by the queen, which is delivered both by air and when workers lick the queen to clean her.

The queen begins laying eggs at the start of summer, in May. Larvae emerge about 5 days later, and spend the next 20-25 days being fed by the queen until they reach full size, at which time they spin a mucus-based cover over their cell and emerge as a mature worker. This cycle continues throughout the summer and early fall, with larger individuals emerging later in the season. A larva's place in the hive also determines its size; the largest larvae, which becomes the queen, is located at the bottom of the nest closest to the entrance. Multiple queens typically hatch in a season, but most leave the nest to start their own colonies. Towards the end of the summer, the queen mates with multiple males and then enters a state of hibernation until the following spring thaw; meanwhile, the workers either starve or are killed by the cold.

Workers and queens are fairly similar in appearance; both sport yellow and black markings across their thorax and abdomen to warn away potential predators. The primary difference is that queens are larger, at 20 mm (0.8 in) long, while workers are only 12–17 mm (0.5–0.7 in). Only female workers have stingers. The species is commonly confused with the European wasp, Vespula germanica, as the two look remarkably similar; the best identifier is that V. vulgaris has only one black mark on its head, while V. germanica has three.

Conservation status: This species has a large, stable population and is considered Least Concern by the IUCN. However, in areas where it has been introduced, it is considered invasive due to predation and competition with native species.

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Dennis Maraisis via iNaturalist

#common wasp #Hymenoptera #Vespidae #social wasps #paper wasps #wasps #hymenoptrids #insects #arthropods #deciduous forests #deciduous forest arthropods #grasslands #grassland arthropods #urban fauna #urban arthropods #europe #asia #animal facts #biology #zoology

[waspcup]

i love online because when people are talking about wanting to play the h*rry p*tter game i can just block them peace and love

#i am not going to say anything.i am notngoing to say anything <-affirmations #i love social interactions !! #yhis guy is fully aware of the issues w jkr/the antisemitism btw he just doesnt care #wasp speaks

[here-there-were-dragons]

as a general rule, on average, if americans consistently complain about a food being conceptually weird, gross, and scary, then it probably tastes amazing. or at least inoffensive.

this is because in my experience americans for the most part (give or take a few exceptions by region) think eating literally anything other than beef, chicken, bread, eggs, peanut butter jelly sandwitches, ketchup, and disgusting cloyingly artificial brown sludge soda is insurmountably weird, gross, and scary.

#a lot of people literally refuse to even eat ham or pork #not even for like religious or health reasons #just because they think eating anything but beef and chicken is 'weird and scary and gross' #every time i hear people going on en masse about how 'weird and an acquired taste' something foreign is i go and try it and i'm just like #what the fuck were all of you smoking. where is the unbearable weirdness i am supposed to be experiencing #shoutout to that time i kept hearing about how bizarre a flavor milkis soda is and how intimidating and acquired of a taste #then when i actually try the stuff. it's just fucking peach soda. it's peach soda with a faint tangy yogurtish taste. it makes good floats. #how in the absolute fuck is anything even remotely weird much less gross about this? #unless your concept of what a 'soda' should be is poisoned by a lifetime of the entire soda aisle being filled with nothing but brown sludg #from the same 3 brands that all taste like what would happen if they could distill the concept of diabetes and artificial flavoring syrup #i don't know if other countries have this but there's this weird cultural like mandatory rejection of any 'unusual' food here #way more intense than i've seen from anyone from any other country (though that might just be inexperience with other cultures talking) #people react to the mere suggestion of any food outside a very narrow range with outright disgust and genuine fear and horror #and there's a huge amount of unspoken peer pressure on everyone to also do the same #like you're expected to agree with them and you've breeched some sort of silent social contract if you don't #it's seen as *immoral* almost it feels like #it's difficult to describe unless you've noticed it yourself #americans react to the mere suggestion of eating anything outside of the same 2 meats and handful of fillers the same way #that pearl-clutching aristocrat grandmas react to hearing that people in foreign countries do.. basically anything #it doesnt matter if you're suggesting eating ube cake or suggesting eating live bugs because people will react the same way #everything that's not chicken/beef/ect is as good as bugs to people here #hate this stupid blandass country and how impossible it is to afford any food other than burgers if you're not rich #or blessed with relatives that have any idea how to cook and are at all willing to teach you #cause nother weird thing i've noticed about food culture-or at least wasp food culture-that i haven't seen anywhere else quite the same way #is that if you DO have any relatives that know how to cook then nine times out of ten they will jealously guard their recipes like a dragon #and refuse to share them with anyone #thus taking whatever little cooking knowledge was in the family to their grave #so the opportunity other people usually have for family bonding via passing on recipes? pffft no. #for some reason we seem to actively go out of our way to prevent these things from being passed on #i don't know what the fuck is up with that but i suspect it has something to do with 50's dinner party oneupmanship